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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






2. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






3. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






4. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






5. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






6. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






7. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






8. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






9. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






10. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






11. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






12. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






13. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






14. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






15. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






16. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






17. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






18. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






19. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






20. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






21. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






22. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






23. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






24. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






25. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






26. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






27. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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28. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






29. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






30. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






31. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






32. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






33. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






34. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






35. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






36. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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37. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






38. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






39. Final stable syllable

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40. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






41. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






42. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






43. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






44. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






45. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






46. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






47. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






48. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






49. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






50. International Multisensory Structured Education Council